Breast-feeding is certainly best for your baby. You have probably heard or read about the advantages of breast-feeding.
- Its constituents are best suited to meet the nutrition for the baby and is easily digested
- Infections are less because milk comes directly from mother to the baby and therefore there is no chance of any germs entering it as it would from a bottle (even if you sterilize the bottles some germ contamination can still occur)
- It contains many substances that help the baby’s body to resist the germs (viral and bacterial)
- Besides these, there are many other advantages including stronger bonding between the mother and the baby
Most of the mothers that I come across in my practice do want to breast feed their babies, but some mothers do not succeed. The main reason is wrong advice from relatives and friends. Some mothers do want to breast feed, but cannot breast-feed their babies because they have to go out to work. In this chapter, I will be discussing about breast-feeding as well as about formula feeding.
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